Vera Voloshina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian partisan
Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1919
Place of Birth: Kemerovo, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia
Date of Death: 29-Nov-1941
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Vera Voloshina
- Vera Danilovna Voloshina (Russian: ???? ????????? ????????; 30 September 1919 – 29 November 1941) was a Russian partisan who after joining the Red Army took part in subversive activities against the Nazis in World War II.
- After being ambushed by the Germans in November 1941, she was brutally hanged near the village of Golovkovo in the Naro-Fominsky District to the southwest of Moscow.
- According to legend, she was also the model behind Ivan Shadr's Girl with an Oar sculpture in Moscow's Gorky Park.
- In 1994, Voloshina was honoured posthumously as a Heroine of the Russian Federation.
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